About
We go where we're invited
Common Ground Campus doesn't host its own rallies. A student group, a school, or a community invites us in — and we help them run an event their campus actually wants to attend. We plan it, coordinate it, and pay for it. They bring their people.
Our method is simple to say and rare to see: get people with opposing views in the same room, skip the debate, and work toward something everyone can live with. Not a compromise of convictions — a discovery of what's shared.
Five years, dozens of campuses, one belief: every person has the same right to think for themselves. Everything else is preferences.
How an event works
- 1 — A group picks a topic their campus avoids.
- 2 — Students with opposing views take the stage.
- 3 — No debate. Each names a real concern.
- 4 — The room works out what everyone can live with.
Founders
Felisa Blazek and Brent Hamachek co-founded Common Ground Campus and co-authored Where the Bridge Begins to Burn — the booklet behind the movement.
Read the booklet →“We know we can't do everything. But we can do something. This is our something.”